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Before the document is unveiled, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and his team are being contacted by MEPs, member states and stakeholders worried about suggestions that they intend to scrap draft legislation under the principle of “political discontinuity”.
The chairs of the European Parliament’s committees met the college of commissioners last week (2 December) and expressed concern about the so-called ‘kill list’ of legislation that is in jeopardy.
Earlier that week, environment ministers from 11 member states – including France, Germany and Italy – wrote to Juncker and Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, urging them not to withdraw a clean-air policy package that was proposed in December 2013 and a resource-efficiency and circular economy package from July this year. Both were mentioned in a letter sent to commissioners as being ‘up for review’. Juncker and Timmermans will meet the Parliament’s political group leaders today for an exchange of views.
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